Life Quote by Salman Rushdie

“Nim looked aghast. “Of course not. Do you think my future wife would be a servant? No—it’s Number Seven of the wives. Her name…

— Colleen Chen

“At last, when no one else came, Mother Sleep soothed with her soft caresses the wounded heart of the motherless lad. Nilkanta”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“So you've not only somehow married Fraser's wife, but you've accidentally been raising his illegitimate son for the last fifteen years?”

— Diana Gabaldon

“If they come into a house and there is a son and a mother there, they hold a gun to their heads. They make…

— Edwidge Danticat

“She put her hand on his shoulder and gave a soft squeeze. She did not know what else to do. First her mother, then…

— Michael J. Sullivan

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood,…

— Homer

“What is this solution?’ asked Sparrow. ‘The breakdowns are a rejection of birth by men who have unconsciously retreated into the world of prebirth.…

— Frank Herbert

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.

— Democritus

“Tillie studied her mother’s face. The face which had seen thirty-seven years of life. Twenty-one years of marriage. The birth of ten babies. The…

— Deeanne Gist

“She has assisted at more than one Birth, has endur'd a hard-drinking and quarrelsome troop of Men-Folk,— who is this unfamily'd man in a…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

“Let's dispense with the nonsense, Victoria. This isn't a question of suitability, yours or his. You're perfectly capable of accustoming yourself to new circumstances....…

— Lisa Kleypas